Why health screening is important for Women?
1,086 viewsPrevention has always been the best way to ensure a cure. Regular health screenings are important for all women to help identify a range of serious diseases.
Prevention has always been the best way to ensure a cure. Regular health screenings are important for all women to help identify a range of serious diseases.
For far too long, the health needs of women are often overlooked across the world, especially in Africa and other developing countries. Non-communicable diseases related to heart and kidneys are often termed as men’s disease,
World is changing rapidly and so we are. In this fast-changing world, our body is really changing because of the food we eat. Majorly our body is getting affected by our lifestyle.
1. Myth: Don’t eat after 6 pm.
Fact: You shouldn’t have a large meal 3 or 4 hours before going to sleep. The reason is that those people who eat just before bedtime are more likely to gain weight simply because a bedtime snack is an extra meal and, therefore, extra calories.
The term spinal cord injury refers to damage to the spinal cord resulting from trauma (e.g. a car crash) or from disease or degeneration. Although there is no perfect figure for its incidence, but an estimated count for it is 40 to 80 cases per million population. Just like healthy people are the backbone of any country’s economy, the spine is a vital organ that nurtures the well-being of an individual.
Diabetes, often referred to by doctors as diabetes mellitus, describes a group of metabolic diseases in which the person has high blood glucose (blood sugar), either because insulin production is inadequate, or because the body’s cells do not respond properly to insulin, or both. Patients with high blood sugar will typically experience polyuria (frequent urination), they will become increasingly thirsty (polydipsia) and hungry (polyphagia). It is one of the fastest growing disorders in Africa and also one of the most under-recognized ones as there are many myths associated to it.
In a bid to reduce referrals abroad Regency Medical Centre in Dar es Salaam has partnered with experts from HCG Hospital in Indiato provide hip and knee surgery in Tanzania.
REGENCY Medical Centre (RMC) have performed three knee replacement surgeries and screened over 150 patients with various problems of spine, hip and knee during a two-day camp held last week in Dar es Salaam.
Continued efforts by the Dar es Salaam-based Regency Medical Centre in organising trips for advanced medical treatment; open heart surgery in particular, has won accolades among medical practitioners and other interviewed residents.
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